Author: Prof. Dr. Lisa Liu (Luhong-Wang)

Brazilian grill restaurant Seafood restaurant

IUCr High Pressure Workshop at Lund, Sweden during Sep. 25-28, 2024. Facility tour: MAX IV, the first 4th generation synchrotron X-ray source. Church at Lund downtown and high tech devices inside. Next IUCr High Pressure Workshop will be held at Shanghai, China in Sep. 2025.

This Goldschmidt conference overlapped with DNC 2024 at the same town. Social activity: Goldschmidt’s Blues night at the Buddy Guy’s Legends Jazz club. PHOTO/VIDEO POLICY: Buddy Guy’s Legends is pleased to announce that we will now allow video recording as well as photos. We ask that patrons be courteous and not block the views of others…

We had 2-day beamtime for low temperature & high pressure XRD experiments. 4 students and 2 helpers joined this run. We stopped by Okayama, a city close to Spring-8 at Harima Science Park City, and had extra couple hours for a quick city tour. At Sky Bar and Lounge-Sen. Lunch at Urbano in ANA Crowne…

Two weeks long beam time at SIRIUS.

3 days beamtime at ALBA, which is located at Barcelona, where tons of amazing buildings were declared as World Heritage Site by UNESCO. One of Gaudi’s masterpiece is still under construction. We had 1-day to visit friend and peers at University of Valencia.

First time visited Hamburg. This city seems difference from the southern city, Stuttgart, where we lived more than 2 decades ago. DESY is really huge and has unique open door policy, kind of shocking for new users. Great to meet old friend and new friend here. The operation systems are extremely user friendly. Two Thumb…

Last time Arthur visited here was 23 years ago. The mountain view from guest house window is still fabulous. The local staff are super nice, just like before. Mr. MM even managed to make reservation for us at the only Michelin 1-star restaurant (Le Fantin Latour) in this town, right after our 3-day beam-time. For…